Enrique ''Kicho'' Díaz (
Buenos Aires
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, 21 January 1918 – 5 October 1992) was an
Argentine double bass
The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...
tango musician who played in various ensembles including
Aníbal Troilo
Aníbal Carmelo Troilo (11 July 1914 – 18 May 1975), also known as Pichuco, was an Argentine tango musician.
Troilo was a bandoneon player, composer, arranger, and bandleader in Argentina. His orquesta típica was among the most popular with ...
’s
orquesta típica
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,
Astor Piazzolla
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (, ; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed '' nuevo tango'', incorporating elements fro ...
’s
first Quinteto and
Conjunto 9 and finally
Sexteto Mayor.
Biography
Díaz, widely known by his nickname "Kicho", was born in the city of
Avellaneda in the
Province of Buenos Aires
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, and had two older brothers, David, who became a tango violinist and José (aka Pepe) who became a tango double bass player. He began his musical career in 1935 when he joined a tango ensemble as double bass player with the pianist
José Pascual and
Anselmo Aiete.
In 1939, he joined the orquesta típica of Aníbal Troilo, which included
Orlando Goñi (piano),
Roberto Gianitelli,
Juan Miguel Toto Rodríguez (bandoneon) and the singer
Francisco Fiorentino. Díaz would stay with Troilo until 1959.
He joined Ástor Piazzolla’s
first Quinteto in 1960 and later Piazzolla would write the tango ''Kicho'' as a tribute to him. In 1968 Piazzolla put together an orchestra, including Díaz, to perform his operetta ''
María de Buenos Aires'', and between 1971 and 1972 Díaz played with Piazzolla’s
Conjunto 9.
In 1962 he joined Quinteto Real with
Horacio Salgán
Horacio Adolfo Salgán (June 15, 1916 – August 19, 2016) was an Argentine tango musician. He was born in Buenos Aires to an established Afro-Argentine family. Some of Salgán's most well-known compositions include ''Del 1 al 5 (Días de pago)'' ...
(piano),
Ubaldo de Lío,
Enrique Mario Francini Enrique Mario Francini (14 January 1916 in San Fernando – 27 August 1978 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine tango orchestra director, composer and violinist who played in various tango ensembles including the Orquesta Francini-Pontier and ...
(violin) and
Pedro Laurenz
Pedro Laurenz (born Pedro Blanco Acosta) was a bandoneon player, director and composer of Argentine tango music.
He was born on October 10, 1902, and died on July 7, 1972.
Pedro was born into a musical family in the La Boca neighbourhood of B ...
(badoneon) and occasionally played with the orquestra of
Mariano Mores
Mariano Alberto Martínez (18 February 1918 13 April 2016), known professionally as Mariano Mores, was an Argentine tango composer and pianist.
Biography
Mariano Martínez was born in the San Telmo section of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1918. ...
. Later in 1976 he joined
Sexteto Mayor with whom he played until his death in 1992. He was declared "Tango Double Bass Player of the Century" by the Legislature of Buenos Aires in 2000.
External links
Todotango biography
References
*Piazzolla, Ástor. A Memoir, Natalio Gorin, Amadeus, 2001
*Azzi and Collier, Le Grand Tango: The Life and Music of Ástor Piazzolla, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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1918 births
1992 deaths
Argentine tango musicians
Musicians from Buenos Aires